lean project facilitation

The model approach

GBMP can lead strategic initiatives and process improvement projects to insure you achieve your desired results. A sampling of some of our recent projects for hospitals, ambulatory clinics and skilled nursing facilities includes:

When GBMP facilitates a project for your organization, we can assist you in creating a Model Area. The purpose of a Model Area is to create an advanced example of process excellence so that anyone observing it can easily see that it exhibits breakthrough performance and that Lean is a successful approach. The Model Approach can be used early in an organization's lean journey as a way to achieve rapid results in a focused area, while developing internal lean leaders in preparation for a larger scale lean implementation. As a highly developed example, it becomes a key change-management tool.

The Model Approach is very effective for overcoming skepticism and objections while clearly demonstrating how Lean will make life easier for clinicians and staff, eliminating the things that get in the way of employees being able to do their job.

The Model area is the first to go through multiple passes of improvement. As it does, the process begins to operate in new ways - demonstrating the power of Lean and a new learning culture that will develop your people and sustain the improvements for the long term. It is therefore a Model for the future of the rest of the organization.

"GBMP taught us that Lean thinking is not a project with a beginning and end. It changes how we think, see, and question how and why things are done. Now our eyes are open to new improvement opportunities every day."Alice Lee, former Vice President, Business Transformation, Office of the President, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA

Our practitioners have many years of practical experience working with world class organizations implementing The Toyota Production System. GBMP is a licensed affiliate of The Shingo Institute. Ourteam includes several Shingo Prize Examiners and recipients.

Our experts can provide support onsite, over the phone or via virtual meetings.